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Posts tagged with 'accident' at MetaFilter.Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:21:52 -0800Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:21:52 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60New Jersey Transit, a Cautionary Tale of Neglecthttp://www.metafilter.com/162824/New%2DJersey%2DTransit%2Da%2DCautionary%2DTale%2Dof%2DNeglect
"<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/nyregion/new-jersey-transit-crisis.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&gwh=CDEB335BE51C31578CD438EBAD8C5F69&gwt=pay&_r=0">The story of how the nation's third-busiest commuter railroad declined so rapidly is a tale of neglect and mismanagement</a> that represents an ominous symbol of the challenges facing mass transit systems across the United States in an era when governments are loath to raise taxes." On September 29, a New Jersey Transit train headed into the Hoboken terminal <a href="http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/10/engineer_conductor_noticed_nothing_unusual_about_h.html">crashed</a>, killing one woman, and injuring <a href="http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2016/09/3_killed_more_than_100_hurt_in_hoboken_train_crash.html">108 others.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.162824Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:21:52 -0800roomthreeseventeenThe Graves of the Marines I Losthttp://www.metafilter.com/160000/The%2DGraves%2Dof%2Dthe%2DMarines%2DI%2DLost
"In the early hours of Jan. 26, 2005, one of two large Marine helicopters transporting troops for this expanded and therefore riskier mission crashed, killing all onboard: 30 Marines and a Navy corpsman....I<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/the-graves-of-the-marines-i-lost.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share"> promised myself that night that I would visit all 31 grave sites. I needed to get a sense of where these military service members came from: the schools and churches they attended; the streets where they learned to drive; the neighborhoods where many of their families still lived."</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.160000Sun, 29 May 2016 08:09:15 -0800roomthreeseventeenA Crash That Shattered a Group of Friendshttp://www.metafilter.com/157564/A%2DCrash%2DThat%2DShattered%2Da%2DGroup%2Dof%2DFriends
<a href="http://www.gq.com/story/the-accident">The Accident.</a> Three decades ago, a fatal car crash shattered a small town and a group of friends.
<blockquote><i>I reflexively thought, Don't let it be Jax, and repeated that in my mind, imploring some higher power as my dad drove me beneath the sodium points of light on the highway. In the zero-sum of that moment, it didn't even occur to me what the inverse meant: Let it be Seger. And how guilty I'd feel for years after about it.</i></blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.157564Tue, 01 Mar 2016 19:58:43 -0800headspace"I've been here 33 years and I've never seen anything so bad,"http://www.metafilter.com/156346/Ive%2Dbeen%2Dhere%2D33%2Dyears%2Dand%2DIve%2Dnever%2Dseen%2Danything%2Dso%2Dbad
<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/the-deadliest-prison-bus-crash-in-texas-history#.tsgJVmjBe">The Story Behind The Deadliest Prison Bus Crash In Texas History <small>[BuzzFeed]</small></a> In January 2015, a prison transport carrying 15 men — three guards and 12 chained-together inmates — ran off the road. It was one of the bloodiest days in the history of Texas prisons. <blockquote>"The bus smashed into the top of the freight train with a thunderous boom — so loud that Self and Rivera instantly went near deaf in one ear. The train, still moving, bashed the bus against a cement pillar under the bridge, and then another, and then a third, and the bus rolled over with each hit. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" Rivera recalled. "Everybody started flipping everywhere. Left to right, right to left. Some bodies are heavier than others, and we're all handcuffed, so the bones were coming out of their bodies, because when you're handcuffed and you're flying from here to there, everybody gets tangled up." The bus tumbled off the train and landed on its side in the dirt next to the tracks. And then there was silence. It was dark inside the crumpled bus, and Pineda could see nothing but the white linens just above his face. He lay on his back and could feel the weight of many men on top of him."</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.156346Mon, 18 Jan 2016 05:28:23 -0800FizzWhy drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit.http://www.metafilter.com/152862/Why%2Ddrivers%2Din%2DChina%2Dintentionally%2Dkill%2Dthe%2Dpedestrians%2Dthey%2Dhit
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/09/why_drivers_in_china_intentionally_kill_the_pedestrians_they_hit_china_s.html">Driven to Kill.</a> The "hit-to-kill" phenomenon in China where a driver who has accidentally struck a pedestrian will stop to run over them again, or multiple times, to ensure they are dead. <small>Trigger warning for text descriptions of gruesome vehicular murder. Lots of links to photos and videos in the article that you should click at your own discretion.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.152862Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:06:36 -0800allkindsoftimeIt'll buff outhttp://www.metafilter.com/151501/Itll%2Dbuff%2Dout
Thinking of hiring a stretch limo for that graduation, prom, wedding or some other event? Top tip! If you do, perhaps <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss8RdZLPCvs&feature=youtu.be&t=20s">don't try and drive it over a level crossing</a>. Especially on a rail line used by trains hauling a "ten thousand ton" load. (Video features train collision with unoccupied vehicle, amateur video production effects). As in the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11758225/10000-tonne-freight-train-ploughs-into-limousine-at-level-crossing.html">Telegraph</a>, <a href="http://jalopnik.com/guess-who-wins-in-a-freight-train-versus-limo-fight-1719718728">Jalopnik</a>, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/freight-train-barrels-limousine-indiana-32653761">ABC news</a> and <a href="http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2015/7/23/Chrysler-300-Limo-Vs-10-000-Ton-Train-The-Winner-Won-t-Surprise-You-7728233/">Car Buzz</a>. And a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ecsdnews/videos/vb.173080392733432/953225588052238/?type=2&theater">follow-up video</a> by the county sheriff. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151501Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:32:40 -0800WordshoreWas SL-1 an accident?http://www.metafilter.com/151455/Was%2DSL%2D1%2Dan%2Daccident
On January 3rd, 1961, three men died when the US Army's SL-1 experimental nuclear reactor melted down. It was the first fatal reactor incident in the US. But was it an accident? Or <a href="https://passingstrangeness.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/sl-1-murder-by-nuclear-reactor/">murder</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151455Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:07:49 -0800Chrysostom"I definitely felt Dean was invincible."http://www.metafilter.com/149736/I%2Ddefinitely%2Dfelt%2DDean%2Dwas%2Dinvincible
On Saturday evening, May 16, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping">BASE jumpers</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Potter">Dean Potter</a> and Graham Hunt <a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/1981591/dean-potter-killed-base-jumping-accident">died after attempting a wingsuit flight from Taft Point, a 7,500-foot promontory that overlooks Yosemite Valley and El Capitan</a>. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/18/extreme-athlete-dean-potter-among-two-killed-base-jumping-in-yosemite">The Guardian</a>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/sports/dean-potter-extreme-climber-dies-in-jumping-accident-at-yosemite.html?_r=0">The New York Times</a>
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/18/us/yosemite-base-jumpers-dean-potter-graham-hunt-deaths/">CNN</a>
<a href="http://time.com/3882194/dean-potter-graham-climbing-base-jump-yosemite-tribute/">"I definitely felt Dean was invincible."</a>
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/69940/Dean-Potter-walks-the-line-and-then-jumps-off">Previously.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.149736Mon, 18 May 2015 05:04:50 -0800chavenetSafe at any speed -- until the ignition cuts outhttp://www.metafilter.com/144042/Safe%2Dat%2Dany%2Dspeed%2Duntil%2Dthe%2Dignition%2Dcuts%2Dout
<blockquote>Countless articles have been written about General Motors and its massive recalls earlier this year. What hasn't been fully told is how GM might have gotten away with multiple counts of consumercide were it not for the efforts of three men: a Georgia lawyer, a Mississippi mechanic, and a Florida engineer.</blockquote>
<a href="http://pando.com/2014/10/18/gms-hit-and-run-how-a-lawyer-mechanic-and-engineer-blew-the-lid-off-the-worst-auto-scandal-in-history/">How an unsafe ignition lock helped kill tens of people and the people who found out the truth about it</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.144042Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:32:40 -0800MartinWisseDramatic Safety Videos from the US Chemical Safety Boardhttp://www.metafilter.com/139719/Dramatic%2DSafety%2DVideos%2Dfrom%2Dthe%2DUS%2DChemical%2DSafety%2DBoard
The United States Chemical Safety Board and Hazard Investigation Board, an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that investigates the cause of chemical accidents (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob7OM3v5zXo">About the CSB Video</a> (14 minutes), <a href="http://www.csb.gov">website</a>) has released a well-made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVCOWejlag">animated video</a> (11 minutes) detailing the root cause of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in conjunction with a <a href="http://www.csb.gov/csb-draft-report-finds-deepwater-horizon-blowout-preventer-failed-due-to-unrecognized-pipe-buckling-phenomenon-during-emergency-well-control-efforts-on-april-20-2010-leading-to-environmental-disaster-in-gulf-of-mexico/">two-volume draft report</a> about the disaster. This is just the latest in a series of informative and fascinating safety videos released by the CSB. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo7H_ILs1qc">Falling Through the Cracks </a>(8 mins): An explosion at a crystal-growing facility causes a death at a nearby gas station.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktMzw2fd28">Deadly Contract</a> (13 mins): An explosion and fire in Waipahu, Hawaii kills five workers during an operation to dispose of contraband fireworks performed under a federal contract.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZgvD4FjJ8">Inherently Safer: The Future of Risk Reduction</a> (11 mins): An examination of the concept of inherent safety and its application across industry.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqskpvPejeU">Hot Work: Hidden Hazards</a> (11 mins): Welding on top of a storage tank containing flammable vapor leads to tragic consequences.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHpeBubb_M">Iron in the Fire</a> (14 mins): Three separate iron dust fires occur in 2011 at the Hoeganaes plant in Gallatin, Tennessee.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBWxGik64A">Experimenting with Danger</a> (24 mins): Serious accidents in academic laboratories happen while conducting chemical research.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISNGimMXL7M">Fatal Exposure: Tragedy at DuPont</a> (14 mins): Three accidents occur over a 33-hour period at the DuPont plant in Belle, WV.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcfvzGtuamM">Fire in the Valley</a> (16 mins): A runaway reaction at a pesticide plant causes a catastrophic explosion and fire.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjxBtwl8-Tc">Deadly Practices</a> (15 mins): Fires and explosions result from intentional releases of natural gas into work areas.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeaX0IRjyd8">No Escape: Dangers of Confined Spaces</a> (15 mins): A chemical fire erupts deep in a hydroelectric plant tunnel, trapping five workers.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWkcuR0adeI">Dangers of Hot Work</a> (14 mins): Key lessons to prevent flammable vapor explosions caused by welding and cutting.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5CU-qW4zxE">No Place to Hang Out: The Danger of Oil Sites</a> (11 mins): After two friends die, Mississippi teens investigate the dangers of oil and gas sites.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7mLSG-Yws">Inferno: Dust Explosion at Imperial Sugar</a> (9 mins): Accumulations of sugar dust fuel massive explosions, killing 14 workers.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C561PCq5E1g">Runaway: Explosion at T2 Laboratories</a> (9 mins): A heat-producing chemical reaction runs out of control, killing four workers.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d37Ca3E4fA">Combustible Dust: An Insidious Hazard</a> (29 mins): Dust from industrial processes can become the fuel for devastating explosions.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Ez7lkjg1Y">Emergency Preparedness: Findings from CSB Accident Investigations</a> (20 mins): Lessons from ten years of CSB investigations on preparing for chemical disasters.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzdnUZReoLM">Half an Hour to Tragedy</a> (23 mins): Remaining too close to a propane leak proves fatal to responders and others.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYN9WivpQ6M">Blast Wave in Danvers</a> (19 mins): Solvent vapor explodes at a Boston-area ink plant, devastating a neighborhood.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ItJe2Incs">Hazards of Nitrogen Asphyxiation</a> (12 mins): Two contract workers suffocate while servicing a refinery process vessel.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqGAqwwjY7o">Death in the Oilfield</a> (8 mins): An oil tank explosion kills three workers performing hot work.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKpVnTqngc">Fire From Ice</a> (13 mins): Fire cripples a refinery after propane leaks from a frozen dead leg.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZzdtnZaJk">Static Sparks Explosion in Kansas</a> (11 mins): Static electricity ignites a storage tank, forcing a community to evacuate.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxuPMRTuvbU">Emergency in Apex</a> (16 mins): A North Carolina town is evacuated when fire engulfs a hazardous waste depot.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuJtdQOU_Z4">Anatomy of a Disaster</a> (55 mins): A massive explosion kills 15 and injures 180 at the BP Texas City refinery.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ZLQkn7X-k">Dangers of Propylene Cylinders</a> (8 mins): Gas cylinders, rocketing from a fire, endanger a St. Louis neighborhood.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRuz9bzBrtY">Reactive Hazards</a> (20 mins): Four major accidents illustrate the dangers from uncontrolled chemical reactions.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65wrGV3AEiA">Public Worker Safety: Wastewater Plant Explosion</a> (8 mins): Two public employees burn to death performing unregulated hot work.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRbC4kowrrY">Vinyl Chloride Explosion and Fire</a> (11 mins): A preventable human error leads to a vinyl chloride explosion, killing five.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOKBL1XHcB0">Dangers of Flammable Gas Accumulation</a> (7 mins): When acetylene explodes inside a shed, three workers lose their lives.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9JY3eT4cdM">Explosion at BP Refinery</a> (6 mins): Explosion at BP Refinery, Texas City, Texas
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEaYE6rZ6Vo">Preventing Harm from Sodium Hydrosulfide</a> (6 mins): Sodium hydrosulfide may create deadly hazards at pulp mills, mines, and tanneries.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UnKLm2Eag">Ethylene Oxide Explosion</a> (9 mins): At a sterilization plant, bypassing a safety interlock has catastrophic results.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDTqrRpa_ac">Propylene Fire and Explosions</a> (8 mins): Without safeguards, a small collision leads to a massive process fire.
Descriptions for all but "Falling Through the Cracks" and "Explosion at BP Refinery" are taken from a <a href="http://www.csb.gov/videos/safety-video-titles-and-descriptions-/">list of videos</a><a href="http://www.csb.gov/videos/video-request/"> available on DVD</a> from the CSB website. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.139719Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:13:07 -0800Small DollarFerry with 470 Passengers Sinks off Koreahttp://www.metafilter.com/138362/Ferry%2Dwith%2D470%2DPassengers%2DSinks%2Doff%2DKorea
<a href="http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/04/16/2014041601457.html">Ferry with 470 Passengers Sinks off Korea</a> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ferry-with-350-passengers-sinking-off-south-korea-coast/article18035037/#dashboard/follows/">Scores still missing,</a> many of them high school students on an excursion. According to <a href="http://www.rjkoehler.com/2014/04/16/developing-situation-ferry-sinks-off-jindo/#comments">comments on the Marmot's Hole</a> Korea blog, passengers were told to wait in their cabins rather than gather on deck. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yfj7LGQcSQ">Video from Japanese Fuji television.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138362Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:31:06 -0800KokuRyuJust another day at the office...http://www.metafilter.com/131185/Just%2Danother%2Dday%2Dat%2Dthe%2Doffice
A few weeks ago, Italian astronaut <a href="http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Luca_Parmitano">Luca Parmitano</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/astro_luca">@astro_luca</a>) almost drowned during a spacewalk when his helmet started uncontrollably filling with water, possibly from a <a href="http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/07/nasa-team-root-cause-lucas-leaking-emu/">leaky spacesuit cooling system</a>. (See <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/130042/Trouble-on-the-International-Space-Station">previous MeFi discussion</a> on the incident.) A week later, his fellow ISS astronaut Chris Cassidy posted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vfw_5NDWWto">two</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zpJ3HLEPzGo">videos</a> online showing the actual spacesuit and using it to illustrate the problem. All future US and European spacewalks <a href="http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/08/russian-eva-emu-troubleshooting-continues/">have been halted</a> while the incident is being investigated, although <a href="http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32537.0">the Russian ones are continuing</a>, as they use different suits. Yesterday, Luca published <a href="http://blogs.esa.int/luca-parmitano/2013/08/20/eva-23-exploring-the-frontier/">a scary new entry on his in-orbit blog</a>, where he not only gave all the horror-movie details, but also revealed that he nearly chose to <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/136479/Can-one-survive-10-seconds-on-the-moon-without-a-spacesuit-helmet">depressurize his suit</a> outside the ISS in order to survive. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.131185Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:40:27 -0800Asparagirl"I didn't die?"http://www.metafilter.com/130160/I%2Ddidnt%2Ddie
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/magazine/a-life-or-death-situation.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hp&amp;_r=2&amp;pagewanted=all">A Life-Or-Death Situation.</a> <em>"As a bioethicist, Margaret "Peggy" Pabst Battin fought for the right of people to end their own lives. After her husband's cycling accident, her field of study turned unbearably personal."</em> <small><a href="http://longreads.com/">Via</a></small>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.130160Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:55:25 -0800zarqring of firehttp://www.metafilter.com/130022/ring%2Dof%2Dfire
A truck carrying 119 gas cylinders caught fire after <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SVoI3hB4IiM#at=47">colliding with a bus</a> carrying 28 people on Moscow's Ring Road. The truck driver had minor injuries and everyone else <a href="http://ria.ru/incidents/20130713/949527894.html">escaped</a> unharmed. Then the cylinders <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PlXsxi20ymc#at=351">began exploding</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.130022Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:51:19 -0800stbalbachThe Most Canadian Story Everhttp://www.metafilter.com/128881/The%2DMost%2DCanadian%2DStory%2DEver
<a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/07/truck-carrying-fireworks-hits-moose-on-trans-canada-highway-shuts-down-road-for-5-5-hours-and-lights-up-the-sky/">Truck carrying fireworks hits moose on Trans-Canada Highway, shuts down road for 5.5 hours and lights up the sky.</a> (pictures and video, driver and passenger unharmed.) tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128881Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:53:43 -0800The WhelkBaltimore Train Derailmenthttp://www.metafilter.com/128497/Baltimore%2DTrain%2DDerailment
<a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/29/18561840-fire-rages-for-10-hours-after-baltimore-chemical-freight-train-crash?lite">A train derailed after hitting a truck near Baltimore yesterday.</a>
TV<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tc4W3tlCE4"> news</a> /<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnYeAq9Dz2o"> Raw helicopter footage</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9giQxeAn7KE">citizens on the scene.</a> (NSFW Audio and explosion is about a minute or so in) tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128497Wed, 29 May 2013 07:30:45 -0800josher71Everybody was dressed in his or her best clothes.http://www.metafilter.com/124183/Everybody%2Dwas%2Ddressed%2Din%2Dhis%2Dor%2Dher%2Dbest%2Dclothes
<a href="http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/Disaster-at-Xichang-187496561.html?c=y&amp;story=fullstory">in February, 1996, a rocket launch at Xichang failed.</a> Smithsonian Air &amp; Space publishes first-hand account. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xichang_Satellite_Launch_Center">Xichang Satellite Launch Center</a> at Wikipedia. <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/90280/The-worst-spacerelated-disaster-happened-in-Xichang-China-in-1996">Previously</a> (comprehensive, highly reccommended). tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124183Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:24:52 -0800mwhybark"... given a five percent chance to live. Twice he was given last rites."http://www.metafilter.com/123323/given%2Da%2Dfive%2Dpercent%2Dchance%2Dto%2Dlive%2DTwice%2Dhe%2Dwas%2Dgiven%2Dlast%2Drites
<a href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/sports/dayton-racer-walther-dead-at-65/nThSN/">Salt Walther</a> died Thursday night, Dec. 27., at a residence in Trotwood, OH. The cause of death, as of now, is unknown. On May 30, 1973, he survived a crash that no one thought could be survived. His life was changed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHo8VnOYC_8">forever</a>. (YT: warning: carnage, no fatalities) The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Indianapolis_500">1973 Indianapolis 500</a> was considered to be one of the <a href="http://www.indymotorspeedway.com/500d-73.htm">worst</a>. What could go wrong did go wrong. Three men died. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Pollard">Art Pollard</a> died during the time trials. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede_Savage">Swede Savage</a> crashed on lap 58. He died 33 days later. <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19730531&id=bXkqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SVQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5316,6457010">Armando Moreno Teran</a>, a pit crew member, was hit and killed by a fire truck.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Walther">David "Salt" Walther</a>, suffered burns over half his body, broken ribs, broken knees, broken elbows, and broken hands. Some of the fingers of his left hand were burned almost completely off. When his car came to rest, upside down, on fire, and with both his feet protruding from the front of the car, no one thought he would live. He lived, but at a costly <a href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/throughthearch/entries/2012/12/28/salt_walther_dead_at_65.html/">price</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.123323Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:04:42 -0800TrolleyOffTheTracksThe arsonists who stare at goatshttp://www.metafilter.com/122482/The%2Darsonists%2Dwho%2Dstare%2Dat%2Dgoats
The festive season is approaching, so it's time for everyone's favorite giant Swedish straw caprid to suffer from repeated attacks. Already ("The front hoof smells of petrol") this year's <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/44818/20121203/#.UL1i7oWZIY8">goat at Gävle</a> has been attacked. Of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat#Timeline">76 goats to date</a>, 33 have been burnt (includes goats burnt down more than once and goats only partially burnt), 7 vandalised (includes goats thrown in the river), 1 run over and 1 stolen, giving a survival rate of 45%. The goat attracts international attention and attacks; in 2001 a tourist from Cleveland, Ohio was jailed for 18 days [<a href="http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/article10419990.ab">Swedish</a>] [<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/04/AR2005120400225.html">English</a>] for igniting the goat. Last year's goat survived to December 2nd (<a href="http://youtu.be/SYgUf2Oc5aE">traumatic video</a>). Gävlebocken is 13 metres tall and consists of 3.6 tonnes of straw. While intact it <a href="http://twitter.com/Gavlebocken">tweets</a>, and <a href="http://merjuligavle.blogspot.co.uk/">blogs in Swedish and English</a>. The town is also famous this year for someone discovering that the church tower hatch has been left open for three decades, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/22/swedish-church-pigeon-droppings_n_2175657.html">with undesirable consequences</a>.
Previously on MetaFilter, in <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/110049/Goats-Up-In-Smoke#4058832">2011</a> and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/87541/En-brnd-bock-gr-ingen-glad">2009</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122482Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:20:59 -0800WordshoreBoss Railhttp://www.metafilter.com/120915/Boss%2DRail
"The Wenzhou crash killed forty people and injured a hundred and ninety-two. For reasons both practical and symbolic, the [Chinese] government was desperate to get trains running again, and within twenty-four hours it declared the line back in business. The Department of Propaganda ordered editors to give the crash as little attention as possible. "Do not question, do not elaborate," it warned, on an internal notice. When newspapers came out the next morning, China's first high-speed train wreck was not on the front page." [<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/22/121022fa_fact_osnos?currentPage=all">How a high-speed rail disaster exposed China's corruption</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120915Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:48:56 -0800vidurTruck crash landinghttp://www.metafilter.com/120328/Truck%2Dcrash%2Dlanding
Recommended procedures in the event of being propelled through the windshield of your truck, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUoYj2Lur2I">exhibit A</a>. Youtube. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120328Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:46:52 -0800AnythingThe Baby Died - Morbid Curiosities found in Old Newspapershttp://www.metafilter.com/120144/The%2DBaby%2DDied%2DMorbid%2DCuriosities%2Dfound%2Din%2DOld%2DNewspapers
A fellow tried to impress his friends by fitting a billiard ball in his mouth - <a href="http://thebabydied.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/choked-by-billiard-ball.html">he died.</a> A young woman laced her corset too tightly - <a href="http://thebabydied.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/sudden-death-from-tight-lacing.html">she died.</a> A woman fell down the stairs, which caused one of her hairpins to penetrate her skull - <a href="http://thebabydied.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/tragedy-of-pin.html">she died.</a> And, of course, many people had horrible encounters with mill and farm machinery. <a href="http://thebabydied.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/dewsburyhorrible-accident.html">Predictably, they died.</a> (warning-occasionally graphic descriptions of death and dismemberment, mostly from the late 19th century). Luckily, not everyone died. Some just had <a href="http://thebabydied.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/girl-drunk-at-fifteen.html">a bit too much too drink</a>, others... well, they probably also had a <a href="http://thebabydied.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/wounded-by-ghosts.html">bit too much to drink</a>.
<a href="http://thebabydied.blogspot.co.uk/">The Baby Died</a> - a collection of Morbid Curiosities found in Old Newspapers. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120144Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:05:09 -0800cilantroBuying a Kick in the Facehttp://www.metafilter.com/118918/Buying%2Da%2DKick%2Din%2Dthe%2DFace
<a href="http://mattfisher.tumblr.com/post/29338478278/my-sister-paid-progressive-insurance-to-defend-her">My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court:</a> After a Baltimore car accident between an insured and an underinsured driver left the insured driver dead, <a href="http://gawker.com/5934436/comedian-calls-out-progressive-for-defending-his-sisters-killer-progressive-responds-in-heartless-robot-fashion">Progressive Insurance</a> took up the defense of the underinsured driver against their own policy-holder. Maryland law follows the doctrine of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_negligence">contributory negligence</a>, which disallows any monetary awards if even minimal negligence on the part of the plaintiff contributed to the damages. <a href="http://consumerist.com/2012/08/why-would-an-insurance-company-defend-the-at-fault-driver-in-a-fatal-car-accident.html">Presumably</a> the Progressive legal team defended the at-fault driver in hopes of proving some <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/bridge/LawEconomics/neg-liab.htm">negligence</a> on the part of their policy holder. <a href="http://online.ceb.com/calcases/C3/13C3d804.htm">Other states</a> have moved away from contributory negligence, holding that "the doctrine of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_negligence">comparative negligence</a> is preferable to an 'all or nothing' rule from the point of view of logic, practical experience, and fundamental justice." <a href="http://www.allenandallen.com/blog/contributory-negligence.html">Does contributory negligence</a> encourage insurance companies to act against their own clients' welfare?
<small><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/118909/No-Dough-Flo-from-Pro">previously</a></small> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.118918Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:15:50 -0800Ice Cream SocialistRollin' rollin' rollin'...http://www.metafilter.com/118786/Rollin%2Drollin%2Drollin
"This is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDu0jYiz-v8">unprecedented footage of a small airplane crash from inside the cockpit</a> from two different views. Miraculously, everyone survived. The pilot will make a full recovery and the rest of us escaped with superficial injuries and feel very lucky to be alive." (Graphic accident footage, injuries are shown) "This trip was much anticipated and due to our excitement we had our Gopro cameras filming at various times. After flying up into the mountains for a morning hike in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness we were planning on flying to a small mountain town for dinner. Due to warming temperatures there was an increase in density altitude and we had a hard time getting adequate lift. After taking off we hit an air pocket that made us rapidly loose altitude, pushing us down into the trees. The cameras were left on for a couple of hours during the aftermath. Thank you to all the many individuals who eventually came to our aid and took the time and effort to help in any way they could. We appreciate you more than you know.
"The aftermath: Two campers rushed there within about 15 to 20 minutes. They then went for help and found a retired paramedic and firefighter who came to our aid. About 50 minutes to and an hour after that a crew of fire fighters were driving through the area and somebody flagged them down. The fire crew cut down trees so a life flight helicopter could land. We really appreciated everyone's help and effort. We feel very blessed to have had such great people respond so quickly." <small>(Nestled deep in the YouTube comments.)</small>
A <a href="http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20120701X65804&key=1">preliminary NTSB report</a> matches the description given by the person who uploaded the video. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.118786Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:37:46 -0800heyhoBlame it on the ADDhttp://www.metafilter.com/113112/Blame%2Dit%2Don%2Dthe%2DADD
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEFCQRwj28w">Grounded.</a> <a href="http://jebcorliss.net/">Jeb Corliss</a> pays the price. The tally is two broken legs, including a compound tib-fib and an injured neck. From Jeb's facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=336828709693422&id=171260932916868">what happened</a> and his <a href="http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=338871869489106&id=171260932916868">current status</a>.
<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/110586/Dont-just-read-russian-You-must-think-Russian">Previous</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/107792/yes-THROUGH-the-mountain">Jeb</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/98011/Crack-Flying">Corliss</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/96483/Wheee">posts</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.113112Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:45:30 -0800Manjusri